BLACKPINK's Rosé Breaks Billboard Record For Highest Debut Of Any Female K-Pop Artist On Radio Songs Chart

BLACKPINK’s Rosé has set another Billboard record with her smash hit “APT.”!

On November 26 local time, Billboard revealed that Rosé and Bruno Mars’ collab single “APT.” had debuted at No. 38 on its Radio Songs chart (formerly Hot 100 Airplay), which ranks each week’s most popular songs by airplay on U.S. radio stations across all musical genres.

Rosé has now become the first female K-pop artist ever to make a Top 40 debut on Billboard’s Radio Songs chart, breaking FIFTY FIFTY’s record for the highest debut by a female K-pop act (their hit song “Cupid” debuted at No. 48 last year). She has also achieved the highest ranking of any female K-pop soloist on the chart to date (overtaking her bandmate Jennie’s The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp collab “One of the Girls,” which debuted at No. 49 and peaked at No. 48).

Notably, “APT.” is only the third song by a female K-pop artist ever to enter the Radio Songs chart at all—following “Cupid” and “One of the Girls.”

“APT.” also remained No. 1 on both Billboard’s Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts for the fifth week in a row, overtaking BTS’s “Dynamite” to become the K-pop song with the second most weeks at No. 1 on the Global 200. (The only K-pop song to spend more weeks at No. 1 is BTS’s Jungkook’s “Seven” featuring Latto, which topped the chart for seven weeks last year.)

Additionally, “APT.” spent its fifth consecutive week in the top 15 of Billboard’s Hot 100—where it stayed strong at No. 15—in addition to rising to a new peak of No. 18 on the Pop Airplay chart, which measures weekly plays on mainstream Top 40 radio stations across the United States.

The single also ranked No. 9 in its fifth week on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart and No. 12 on the Digital Song Sales chart.

Finally, Rosé came in at No. 91 on Billboard’s Artist 100 this week, marking her sixth week on the chart as a soloist.

Congratulations to Rosé!